Cleaner

NHS Jobs; Burnley; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Burnley is seeking a Cleaning Operative to maintain high cleanliness standards across healthcare facilities. The role involves cleaning wards and public areas in line with the NHS National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 and strict infection control policies.

You will work as part of a team, uphold hygiene practices, manage waste and supplies, and contribute to a safe, welcoming environment for patients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the highest standards of cleaning service following work schedules and NHS National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021
• Provide customer care with helpfulness, awareness and compassion to patients, visitors, staff and colleagues
• Ensure infection control guidelines are followed and adhere to COSHH and National Colour Coding Scheme
• Maintain supplies of paper towels, soap, toilet paper, kitchen rolls; manage waste bin disposal according to policy
• Perform daily cleaning tasks across floors, furniture, fixtures, sanitary areas and cupboards
• Handle emergencies such as spillages, floods or body fluids promptly and safely
• Participate in audits, practice meetings and day-to-day departmental duties as required
• Respect confidentiality and ensure data protection and safety policies are followed

Job description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Scope and Purpose of the Role Deliver the highest standards of cleaning service at all times observing work schedules and the NHS National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021
• To deliver good principles of customer care ensuring helpfulness, awareness and compassion to patients, visitors, staff and colleagues
• Ensure that infection control guidelines are followed.
• To adhere to the National Colour Coding Scheme.
• To adhere to COSHH Guidance.
• Emptying waste bins and refuse containers, bagging refuse according to waste disposal policy
• Ensure supplies of paper hand towels, soap, toilet paper, kitchen rolls are maintained.
• Clean or dust control mop all hard floors.
• Damp wiping of all furniture, fixtures and fittings, ledges, pipes, tiles, glass partition, walls, doors and panels, internal window blinds
• Cleaning of all sanitary areas, washbasins, sinks (clean and dirty)
• High dusting all ledges, surfaces and pipes
• Changing curtains
• Cleaning interiors of cupboards.
• Dealing with emergencies as they occur spillage, floods, blood, vomit, urine, etc.
• Check and clean refrigerator discard out of date food.
• Ensure all waste streams are segregated and disposed of in accordance with legislation.
• Ensure that all cleaning responsibilities are followed in accordance with daily, weekly and deep cleaning schedule in all risk areas as per the Cleanliness Charters.
• To work co-operatively with colleagues as part of the team and perform additional duties as and when directed.
• Clean and maintain all domestic equipment.
• Support the curtain changing programme.
• Any other roles and responsibilities deemed necessary.

Professional Role

• Work collaboratively with colleagues within and external to the practice.
• The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment.
• Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
• Identify and manage care risks on a continuing basis.
• Participate in practice meetings and practice management meetings, reporting progress as required.
• Participate in audits and inspections as appropriate.
• Ensure that all Practice Policies are fully implemented.

Risk Management

• Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients and public including ensuring they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance.
• Maintain confidentiality, data protection, access to records and information governance procedures, seeking advice from Caldicott and Information Governance Leads, and ensuring all training is up to date.
• The post-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies.

Administrative and Professional Responsibility

• To ensure all Cleaning specification Audits are completed daily for each room/area as per their Functional Risk.
• To ensure completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare.
• Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for reports.
• Attend and participate in practice meetings as required
• To participate in audits as requested initiate audits where approved.
• To be aware of and adhere to all Company Policies, procedures and guidelines when undertaking any activity
• Ensure strict confidentiality is applied to all patients and staff ensuring need to know basis is applied at all times

Research, Education and Training

• Maintain continued education by attendance of courses and study as deemed useful or necessary
• Identify and support practice development plans
• The post holder should acknowledge any limitations of his/her competence, not accepting responsibility for work outside the scope of the role
• To maintain competencies relevant to the role and identify personal development needs and plan with the nurse manager on how these can be achieved
• To acquire, maintain and improve knowledge and skills required to competently perform all agreed healthcare activities. This involves undertaking in-house and mandatory training as agreed by the Clinical Lead and Practice Manager.
• To attend team meeting in order to keep updated on developments within the department.

Health and Safety

• To ensure familiarity with health and safety policies and procedures
• To comply with legislation relating to health and safety
• To ensure COSHH guidelines are adhered to.

This job description is not an exhaustive list. It is subject to change in light of service developments and in consultation with the post-holder and the Practice Manager The content of the agreed job description will be updated on a regular basis as part of the annual Performance Development.